Fluticasone Propion/Salmeterol
Brand names: Advair Diskus, Fluticasone-Salmeterol Hfa, Advair Hfa, Airduo Respiclick, Fluticasone-Salmeterol, Wixela Inhub
At a glance
- Medicare prescriptions, 2024
- 3,232,396
- Medicare drug cost
- $617.6M
- Average cost per prescription
- $191
- Clinicians who prescribed it
- 92,164
Where it is prescribed
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What it is used for
Fluticasone Propionate DISKUS is indicated for the maintenance treatment of asthma as prophylactic therapy in patients aged 4 years and older.
From the FDA-approved prescribing information (label dated July 2026). Full labels on DailyMed (opens in a new tab)
Who prescribes it
- Family Medicine 26.9%
- Internal Medicine 22.5%
- Pulmonology 20.3%
- Nurse Practitioners 15.1%
- Physician Assistants 5.4%
- Allergy & Immunology 3.4%
- Critical Care Medicine 2.1%
- General Practice 1.2%
- Geriatric Medicine 1.0%
- Hospitalist 0.3%
- Sleep Medicine 0.2%
- Pediatrics 0.2%
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Share of Medicare prescriptions written by each specialty. Select one to list its prescribers.
Trend, 2019–2024
Medicare prescriptions rose 8% from 2019 to 2024.
Biggest change by state since 2019
- Utah +56%
- Idaho +37%
- Hawaii +35%
- Puerto Rico +35%
- Florida +32%
- Mississippi (smallest change) −11%
- New York (smallest change) −10%
From CMS’s yearly state and national Part D summaries, which count every prescriber, including those CMS leaves out of its per-clinician data (fewer than 11 prescriptions). That is why these totals are higher than the count at the top of this page. Prescriptions include refills.
Industry payments about this drug
No industry payments to clinicians named this drug in 2025.
Recalls and shortages
Not on the FDA drug shortage list.
No FDA-reported recalls since 2020.
Sources: CMS Medicare Part D Prescribers by Provider and Drug (2024; prescriptions include refills, and CMS hides counts under 11 per prescriber); U.S. Food and Drug Administration, openFDA (drug labels, NDC directory, enforcement reports, drug shortages); CMS Open Payments 2025; ClinicalTrials.gov. General information only, not medical advice; not yet reviewed by our medical reviewer.